Sep 21, 2020
With historic and destructive wildfires spanning the globe from
Oregon to the Amazon in 2020, experts in a range of fields are
coming together to figure out what can be done to save people and
property. In the first segment (2:35), Jesse takes us to a
one-of-a-kind wildfire symposium where academics, insurers, tech
entrepreneurs, firefighters and others brainstorm how to reverse
the surge of wildfire destruction. Then, Angelo talks to the
wildfire coordinator for the city of Missoula, Montana about his
efforts and why jobs like his are becoming essential for
communities (32:52).
Lastly, we debut a periodic segment looking at some of the key
revisions in the 2020 National Electrical Code·. In this
installment, host Derek Vigstol chats with an expert from NEC Code
Making Panel 2 about recent changes to requirements for Ground
Fault Circuit Interrupters, or GFCIs (55:11).
For more resources on how to plan and prepare for wildfire, visit
nfpa.org/wildfire. For more
on the complex issue of wildfire and development, read the NFPA
Journal cover story “Build. Burn. Repeat?” at nfpa.org/buildburnrepeat.